Apparatus for making miniature house members



July 28, 1942. H. FJPASCHAL 2,291,057

APPARATUS FOR MAKING MINIATURE HOUSE MEMBERS OCt. 20, 2 sheets-sheet 1 y23, 1942-: H. F, PASCHAL 2,291,057

APPARATUS FOR MAKING MINIATURE HOUSE MEMBERS Filed Oct. 20. 1939 "2Sheeis-Sheet 2 I] [I II II II V II II II II II II II I [I II II II II HII I] II I] II II II ll Patented July 28, 1942 APPARATUS FOR MAKING M INIA'ruRE HOUSE MEMBERS Herbert Frank Paschal, Chicago, Ill., assignor, bymesne assignments, to Leslie S. Janes, Tinley Park, Ill.

Application October 20, 1939, Serial No. 300,385

2 Claims.

The invention relates to improvements in apparatus for making miniaturehouse members, the primary object of the invention being the provisionof miniature house members which may be produced at small cost and yetimpart a natural appearance to the house when completed. Other objectsof the invention will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists in the apparatus hereinafter described andclaimed.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanyingdrawings, in which? Figure l is a partial top plan view of apparatus forproducing one form of a miniature house member;

Figure 2, an enlarged partial longitudinal section taken substantiallyon line 2--2 of Fig. 1;

Figure 3, an enlarged transverse section taken substantially on line 33of Fig. 1;

Figure 4, an enlarged top plan view of a portion of the part produced bythe apparatus illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2;

Figure 5, a partial top plan view of a modified form of apparatus forproducing a diiferent form of house member;

Figure 6, an enlarged partial top plan view of a section of the materialproduced by the apparatus illustrated in Fig.

Figure 1, an enlarged section taken substantially on line 1-1 of Fig. 5;

Figure 8, a partial top plan view of another modified form of apparatus,and

Figure 9, an enlarged top plan view of a section of the materialproduced by the apparatus illustrated in Fig. 8.

The form of apparatus illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 comprises asuitable table member In having a revolving cutter head ll associatedtherewith as shown, and provided with a plurality of cutter blades l2having serrated edges, as indicated in Figure l. The cutter head H ismounted upon the revolving shaft l3 driven by a pulley I4, as will bereadily understood. The serrated feed-in and guide roller I5 and thesmooth feed-out and guide roller it are arranged as shown and co-operatewith the table It] in the feeding of a sheet of material I! past thecutter head H to form the parallel grooves l8 therein having inclinedbottoms as shown.

A marking roller is arranged as shown to cooperate with the cutter headII. This marking roller is made up of a plurality of disc-like sectionsIQ of substantially the same width as the grooves l8 and provided withmarking projections 20 arranged to produce the transverse indentations2| in the bottoms of the grooves l8 as shown. The sections [9 arearranged as indicated upon a transverse shaft 22 with the sections l9aligning with the grooves l8 so as to place the indentations 2| in thebottoms of said grooves.

The sheet I"! is made up of three plies ll of comparatively heavy veneersheets glued together in the usual way, the topmost my being ofsufficient thickness to receive the grooves [8 without being cutentirely through by said grooves, and said grooves are cut in thetopmost ply transversely of the grain so as to give a shingle-effectappearance to the completed outer surface of the sheet I1. Sheet I! ismade of a size to constitute the entire outer part, such as a section ofthe roof or the section of a wall of a miniature house and, as made,will give the appearance of individual shingles assembled to constitutethe roof or wall of the house.

In the form of apparatus illustrated in Figures 5 and 6 the cutter headis made up of a plurality of circular saws 23 mounted on the shaft 24 inco-operative relation with the table top In. The shaft 24 is driven by apulley 25 so as to cause the saws 23 to cut narrow parallel grooves 26in the surface of the sheet ll as it passes through the apparatus. Asmooth feed-in and guide roller 21 is arranged to co-operate with thesaws 23 without marring the surface of the sheet I! and is positivelydriven by a belt 28 as indicated. In this instance the marking roller ismade up of a plurality of sections 29 each having circumferentiallyspaced marking projections 30 provided with indenting edges extendingaxially, said sections being mounted upon a transverse shaft 3| drivenby a pulley 32 as indicated. The sections 29 are arranged on the shaft3| in alignment with the spaces between the grooves 26 and are adaptedto impress transverse indentations 33 in the surface of the sheet I!between the grooves 26, thereby giving the appearance of a brickconstruction as indicated in Fig. 6.

The form of apparatus illustrated in Figure 8 is the same as thatillustrated in Figures 1 and 2, except that the marking roller 2 hasbeen omitted so that the sheet produced by this form of apparatus willhave merely the grooves I8 formed therein, thus giving the appearance ofa weatherboard construction.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred forms of parts andapparatus and method of procedure, these are capable of variation andmodification Without departing from the spirit volving marking memberhaving a plurality of sets of indenting elements arranged in alignmentwith the spaces between said cutters and having circumferentially spacedindenting projections arranged to impress indentations in the surface ofsaid sheet transversely between and with respect to said grooves.

2. The apparatus specified in claim 1 in which the cutter head isarranged to operate on the 10 sheet ahead of the marking member.

H. FRANK PASCHAL.

